Average doesn’t work for me
Does anyone else loathe average as much as I do? I like to be above average. I fear average. I fear what most of our nation’s tendency toward average will mean for all of us. It is common knowledge that student test scores in the United States have mostly decreased in [...]
Stupidity Abounds
Argh! I just saw a news story about South Dakota’s new ‘free’ prescription card for seniors. The story noted that the card offered the smallest savings among most other prescription savings plans. A pharmacist was then interviewed who stated that (paraphrased) ’since the state doesn’t give them more cash, they can’t offer [...]
Will it ever stop?
Has anyone besides me noticed the absolutely out-of-control amount of random ‘likes’ thrown at random intervals into most persons’ conversations? Everything is ‘like’ this and ‘like’ that. People go to the ‘like’ supermarket and the ‘like’ mall. These places must be in the valley because I have never been to any such [...]
The Stone man strikes again
As I may or may not have mentioned in a previous entry, I believe everyone should have to take an economics course at some point during their education–and I don’t mean the crappy run-of-the-mill economics course we all take in high school. Case in point: Bill Stone. He writes a letter to the [...]
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